the.com/bass guitar
The instrument everyone notices only when it stops playing.
means A low-pitched, usually four-stringed electric instrument that holds down the harmonic foundation and groove of a song.
from Built in the 1950s as a portable, fretted alternative to the hulking upright double bass — Leo Fender's 'Precision Bass' let guitarists play basslines with guitar-like ease, and the name simply fuses 'bass' (from Latin 'bassus,' low) with 'guitar,' describing exactly what it is: a guitar built to go low.
- string count
- usually four, tuned an octave below guitar
- job
- glues drums and chords into one groove
- inventor
- leo fender standardized it in 1951
- respect level
- underrated until the bassline is gone